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  • A Kia Sportage car is displayed during the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in Shanghai on April 19, 2023. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)Retail

    17 states urge federal government to recall Kia and Hyundai cars because they’re too easy to steal and ‘put the public at risk’

    By Adam Beam, Tom Krisher, and others
  • FILE – An electric vehicle is plugged into a charger in Los Angeles, Aug. 25, 2022. Ten electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles will be eligible for a $7,500 U.S. tax credit, while another seven could get $3,750 under new federal rules that go into effect on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Tech

    Some EV cars are getting tax credits up to $7,500 and others are getting $0—Here’s how they stack up

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • FILE – An electric vehicle charges at an EVgo fast charging station in Detroit on Nov. 16, 2022. The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032 — a nearly tenfold increase over current EV sales, according to an announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)Environment

    New Biden administration pollution rules would require almost 10 times as many EV sales in 2032 as today

    By Matthew Daly, Tom Krisher, and others
  • FILE – A motorist charges his electric vehicle at a Tesla Supercharger station in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. About half of U.S. adults say they are not likely to go electric when it comes time to buy a new vehicle, a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago shows. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)Tech

    Americans aren’t loving EVs yet—less than half say their next car will be electric

    By Tom Krisher, Matthew Daly, and others
  • Joe BidenEnvironment

    The White House will require at least 54% of all new vehicles to be electric by 2030, sources say

    By Tom Krisher, Matthew Daly, and others
  • Mary BarraSuccess

    General Motors says it can avoid layoffs for now—but only because about 5,000 salaried workers took buyouts

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Emergency workers work the scene of a fatal accident on Aug. 24, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, with deaths due to speeding and impaired or distracted driving on the rise. The 2021 final numbers, released Monday, April 3, 2023 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, confirmed earlier estimates showing a 10.5% increase in deaths over 2020. (Michael Noble Jr./Tulsa World via AP, File)Health

    Traffic accident deaths hit a 16-year high last year as drunk and distracted driving skyrockets

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk cutting the price of your Tesla might have worked. First-quarter vehicle sales were up 36%.

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • Joe ManchinPolitics

    Manchin says it’s ‘horrific’ that Janet Yellen’s Treasury just put $7,500 EV tax credits out of reach for millions of Americans

    By Tom Krisher, Fatima Hussein, and others
  • Used cars for sale are displayed on the sales lotFinance

    Used-car prices are creeping back up: ‘If you have to buy a used vehicle, now would be a good time’

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • Attendees view a 2021 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody during the Washington Auto Show in 2022Lifestyle

    Dodge’s last gas-powered muscle car will say goodbye as the fastest production car on the market, automaker says

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Tesla Model Y Long Range is displayed on Feb. 24, 2021, at the Tesla Gallery in Troy, Mich. U.S. auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla’s Model Y SUV after getting two complaints that the steering wheels can come off while being driven. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the probe covers an estimated 120,000 vehicles from the 2023 model year. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)Tech

    Tesla is under investigation after complaints that the steering wheel can suddenly come off while driving

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Tesla logo is seen on a vehicle on display in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. On Wednesday, March 1, Tesla executives said the company will use innovative manufacturing techniques and smaller factories to cut the cost of its next generation of vehicles by as much as half of the ones it now builds. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)Tech

    Tesla says it will halve the cost of its next generation of EVs

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • Elon MuskTech

    Tesla recalls all 362,758 vehicles with Full Self-Driving Beta because it ‘may cause crashes’

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Tesla company logo is seen on the hood of an unsold vehicle at a dealership on Aug. 9, 2020, in Littleton, Colo. In a report released Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board apparently solved the mystery of why no one was found behind the wheel of a Tesla that crashed in Texas two years ago, killing two men. During the April 2021 crash in Spring, Texas, the driver apparently moved to the back seat after slamming into the car’s front air bag, deforming the steering wheel in the crash. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)Tech

    Deadly Texas Tesla crash mystery solved

    By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press